Top 10 reasons you don’t stick to your new year’s resolutions

Reason 1: Giving up too Easily

It easy to get discouraged and lose interest
while trying to achieve your resolution and giving up to easy is a trap that we
can all fall into. By the time February
rolls around the excitement wears off and that’s where the power of positive
reinforcement comes into play helping you gain momentum and make continual
progress. Setting smaller more
achievable goals will put you on the path to success without getting
discouraged.

So many goals, but why do we fail?

Reason 2: Time Management

Too often you realize your resolution is a
bigger time commitment that you originally thought. Rather than trying to accomplish it all at
once, break it down in to easily manageable increments. “I resolve to walk 20 minutes every
day”. The easiest way to lose weight is
to make exercise a daily habit, not everyone has 2 hours to spend at the gym,
but everyone can find 20 minutes in their day.

Reason 3: Financial Burden

Many people throw in the towel on their
resolutions if it hits the pocket book too hard. Losing weight can sometimes require a gym
membership. Rather than give up
altogether, try being creative and find less expensive ways to accomplish your
goals. Working out a park or going for a
walk will help you burn the calories without killing your budget.

Reason 4: Unrealistic Resolutions

You may dream about being 75lbs thinner in 2
months, but setting unrealistic goals is setting yourself up for disaster. Its
important to set a goal that is attainable is the time that you have set for
yourself. Making a behavior change is a
big deal and it requires a lot of self control and planning. Pick a goal that you are confident you can
complete and stick with it. It’s always
better to succeed at a smaller manageable resolution than one that is too
lofty.

Reason 5: No Plan of Action

Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance.
Failing to plan is planning to fail. The
best resolutions are the ones that include a detailed plan of action. People set themselves up to fail because they
commit to a resolution knowing full well that that they have no plans set in
place to actually achieve it. Breaking
down you bigger goal into smaller weekly goals keeps you motivated and each day
you chip away edging closer to your desired end result.

Reason 6: Not Believing in Yourself

Self efficacy is the extent or
strength of one’s belief in one’s own ability to complete tasks and reach
goals. How confident are you
that you can achieve your goal? Don’t be afraid to pat yourself on the back
once you have made some measurable progress.
If your goal is to lose 3 lbs a week and you only lose 2, don’t beat yourself
up. Look at what worked and what you
could do better and continue to push forward and make progress.

Reason 7: Lack of Honesty

Are you genuinely committed to losing weight?
Be honest with yourself the mistake people often make is choosing a resolution
that they think they should do, rather than one they actually want to
achieve. Don’t waste your time with
things you should do, or you will likely be disappointed. Choose a goal that you truly want to achieve,
and since you actually want to, you will be more likely to put one foot in
front of the other and execute your plan of action towards your goal.

Reason 8: Poor Perspective

Don’t put too much
pressure on yourself, think of the next year as an opportunity to work on
yourself throughout the year. Stop
focusing on what you haven’t accomplished and start focusing on the task that
lies ahead.

Reason
9 – Trying to do it on your own

Partnering with a health coach is a great strategy to
achieve your new year’s resolution to lose weight. Health professionals can help make sure you
have a sound plan for exercising, healthy eating and most importantly they can
help hold you accountable and keep you on track.

At Better U today you get weekly check-ins with our
expert health coaches where we equip you with everything you need to stay on
the right path and lose weight each and every week.

Reason
10 – Getting on the wrong scale

You can’t improve what you don’t measure. At Better U today we do weekly accountability
weigh-ins on our InBody 570 scale which gives you a detailed body composition
analysis so you can see exactly where you are losing the weight from and whether
it’s muscle, fat or a combination.

Many people may be actually improving their body
composition, yet the number on the scale isn’t moving. This can be incredibly frustrating to someone
using a traditional scale because based off their weight alone they may feel
like they are failing and not making progress, when in fact they are making
progress and actually improving their body composition.

Too many people give up on their goals, believing that
they are not making progress when it could be that they are improving they just
aren’t using the correct tool to measure the progress.

92%
of people don’t achieve their New Year’s resolutions

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year’s resolution.

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